Mit Press: 1072 books

A proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation and representation.

An argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events.

A proposal for a new model of the evolution of gene regulation networks and development that draws on work from artificial intelligence and philosophy of mind.

An examination of antiwater privatization movements in the United States and Canada that explores the interplay of the local and the global.

Integrating new research in neurobiology and psychology, an account of how the cultural environment shapes the brain and the implications for social theory of the decrease in neuroplasticity from childhood to adulthood.

How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.

An illustrated exploration of a groundbreaking work and its connections to New Yorks art and music scenes of the 1980s.

A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results.

An overview of information retrieval rooted in the humanities and social sciences but informed by an understanding of information technology and information theory.

Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge?

An exploration of the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft as a virtual prototype of the real human future.

Prominent economists discuss internal labor markets, the dynamics of immigration, labor market regulation, and other key topics in the work of Michael J. Piore.

An analysis of the political consequences of special district governance in drinking water management that offers new insights into the influence of political structures on local policymaking.

A proposal that the biolinguistic approach to human languages may have identified, beyond the study of language, a specific structure of the human mind. The contemporary discipline of biolinguistics is beginning to have the feel of scientific inquiry. Biolinguistics—especially the work of...